Claverdon railway station serves the village of

Claverdon Claverdon is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England, about west of the county town of Warwick. Claverdon's toponym comes from the Old English for "clover hill". The hill is near the centre of th ...

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon an ...

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. It is managed by

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, although most of the services from the station are operated by

Chiltern Railways Chiltern Railways, formally The Chiltern Railway Company Limited, is a British train operating company that has operated the Chiltern Railways franchise since July 1996. Since 2009, it has been a subsidiary of Arriva UK Trains. Chiltern Railw ...

. It is a

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for

services that call at the station, but a regular stop for

services. The line on which the station stands was opened by the

Stratford on Avon Railway The Stratford on Avon RailwayThe railway industry locally used the name Stratford on Avon, with or without hyphens, until 1951 from when ''Stratford upon Avon'' was used. was a branch railway line opened in 1860, to connect the town of Stratford-up ...

as a single-track branch in 1860, but was doubled between

Bearley Bearley is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England. The village is about five miles (8 km) north of Stratford-upon-Avon, bounded on the north by Wootton Wawen, on the east by Snitterfield, and o ...

and

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in 1938 and a new two-platform station was built at Claverdon. When the second track was lifted in 1969 Claverdon reverted to being a single-platform station.

Services

The station sees six

departures in each direction on the Leamington–Stratford line every day except Sundays, some of these trains continue to or start from

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. Three

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stop at the station per day upon request on weekdays only (one northbound service to Stourbridge Junction in the morning and two southbound services to Stratford-upon-Avon in the evening), but most pass through without stopping. On Saturdays, one northbound

service stops at the station upon request.

References

External links

Historical photographs of Claverdon station
at warwickshirerailways.com
Rail Around Birmingham and the West Midlands: Claverdon station
Railway stations in Warwickshire DfT Category F2 stations Former Great Western Railway stations Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1860 Railway stations served by Chiltern Railways Railway stations served by West Midlands Trains Railway request stops in Great Britain {{WestMidlands-railstation-stub